Well duuuh. Welcome to America, where have you guys been? Ahh... Germany, OK. Anyway this is so obvious that it should not be any headline. You guys have more than your share of scientists. Any decent scientist knows that everything electronic can be duplicated. Using another more appropriate word, faked.
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Since these electronic voting machines are only accountable
to the multinational corporations that control America, just how is this
manipulation?
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It is explicitly illegal for Americans to use electronic voting machines for any Federal elections. It would be nice if the corporate press reported on that fact, but America's rulers choose to ignore the laws that empower the common people.
There is absolutely no way to insure the integrity
of any e-voting scheme.
Yes. Machines based on physical parts (such as residential electric power usage meters) are more resistant to tampering and can easily be monitored. In all electronic machines (including Internet technology) their very design constitutes concealment, and therefore create the inability for poll watchers to watch or for federal observers to observe that part of the voting process (the casting and counting of votes) that must be observable in order to ensure a fair election. The actual candidate selection is the only part of the voting process that is to be concealed.
What violations of federal law occur through the use of electronic technology?
When electronic machines are in the voting booth, or using internet technology, two violations of federal law take place: 1) inability to observe if voting machines properly register or count votes; 2) inability to enforce the Voting Rights Act, because of the inability to observe if voting machines are properly registering or counting votes.
In addition the legal rights of candidates to obtain vote recounts are invalidated by the unconstitutional implementation of electronic voting. Sleazy corporate lawyers may argue otherwise, but the reality is that there can be no recounts.
Refer to this resource: http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingSecurity.htm for detailed and specific case law references on this subject.
Michael L. Clayton - B.S. Electrical Engineering
January 8, 2004